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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 799269, member: 17753&quot;]Apparently it does.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cent and the nickel costs more to make and distribute than they are worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>See the chart at the top of page 30 on their annual report which is at <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/downloads/about/annual_report/2009AnnualReport.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/downloads/about/annual_report/2009AnnualReport.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.usmint.gov/downloads/about/annual_report/2009AnnualReport.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And the sentence: &quot;One-cent and five-cent coins were produced at a loss of $22.0 million&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And the table on the bottom of page 32</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall cost for producing and distributing:</p><p>cent: 0.0162</p><p>nickel: 0.0603</p><p>dime: 0.0565</p><p>quarter: 0.1131</p><p>dollar: 0.3040[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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